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The ‘Votes for Women’ movement was incredibly creative in the strategies it employed to get its message through to those in power – including exploiting a rather curious quirk of the postal system, as Dr Naomi Paxton explains.

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The music in this clip is Ethel Smyth's Serenade in D performed by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Odaline de la Martinez.
The image is from the LSE Library.